39-72-706. Aggravation. (1) If an occupational disease is aggravated by any other disease or infirmity not itself compensable or if disability or death from any other cause not itself compensable is aggravated, prolonged, accelerated, or in any way contributed to by an occupational disease, the compensation payable under this chapter must be reduced and limited to such proportion only of the compensation that would be payable if the occupational disease were the sole cause of the disability or death as such occupational disease as a causative factor bears to all the causes of such disability or death.
     (2) If compensation is reduced a proportionate amount as in subsection (1) and the worker receives disability social security benefits, the offset entitlement granted to the insurer must be reduced in the same proportionate amount as the compensation as long as the worker continues to receive disability social security benefits.

     History: En. Sec. 26, Ch. 155, L. 1959; R.C.M. 1947, 92-1326; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 21, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 162, L. 1989.